Montessori in the classroom : a teacher's account of how children really learn /

Lillard, Paula Polk.

Montessori in the classroom : a teacher's account of how children really learn / Paula Polk Lillard ; foreword by Jerome Bruner ; with a new introduction by the author. - Revised edition. - New York : Schocken Books, c1997. - xxvii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Revised edition of: Children learning. 1980. Includes index.

1. On education -- 2. Class life -- 3. Language -- 4. Mathematics -- 5. Special children -- 6. Personal developments -- Appendixes (A: Classroom schedules ; B: Classroom materials: room care, art, geography, science, cultural, personal, sensorial ; C: The language materials ; D: The math materials ; E: Key introductory Montessori math materials ; F: The three-period lesson of [Édouard] Seguin).

Presents the day-by-day journal entries of a teacher at a Montessori school, showing how teachers teach and how students learn in these classrooms; covers such topics as class life, language, math, gifted children and children with disabilities, and personal development.

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Lillard, Paula Polk--Diaries.


Kindergarten--United States.
Child development--United States.
Teacher-student relationships--United States.
Teachers--Diaries.--United States
Montessori method of education--United States.

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